New Zealand editorial: "too many guns on our streets"
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 11:33 am
Familiar bogus terms and refrains. No interest in root cause mitigation.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/7 ... ur-streets
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/7 ... ur-streets
No rabbit, however, is big enough to justify the guns that police find, more and more often, usually in drug raids. Military-style assault rifles, AK47s and M16s like those found in a meth lab in Takanini this week.
Police confiscated 975 firearms in 2010/11; they seized 1504 last year.
Gangsters and drug-dealers will not, on the most part, have gun licences. But, by hook or by crook, they get their guns from those who do – and there is a quarter of a million of us Kiwis licensed to own a gun.